SPACE NETWORK

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BENEFITS OF NETWORKING

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10 BENEFITS OF NETWORKS

1. Shared knowledge – helps to expand knowledge and allow to see things from another perspective. To learn and avoid pitfalls

2. Opportunities3. Connections – building connections4. Increase confidence – by pushing yourself to talk to people you do

not know it will help to increase your confidence5. Raising your profile – being visible and getting noticed

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10 BENEFITS OF NETWORKS

6. Advice and support – networking will give you the opportunity to get advice from your peers

7. Positive influence – surround yourself with positive, uplifting people that help you to grow and thrive

8. Satisfaction from helping others9. Friendship10.Get fresh ideas – source of new perspectives and ideas

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SPACE NETWORK

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WHO THEY ARE (PRESENT)

The SPACE network is an international network of predominantly professional higher education institutions including universities and VET schools servicing researchers, teachers and students on levels 5, 6 and 7, in the field of (broad sense) business, languages, entrepreneurship and hospitality.

It provides participation in a wide range of prestigious projects and also assistance concerning the submission and management of European projects, new teaching & learning and conceptual and applied research/innovation, besides being a space for sharing and dissemination of  new teaching and learning materials and methodologies, research & innovation, and outcomes of projects. 

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ACTIVITIES (ADDRESSING NEEDS OF ALL TARGETS)

International conference Targets: researchers, teachers, students Format: academic paper, pedagogical cases, business cases, posters Allows disseminating results, ideas, projects. Promotes the contact

between researchers, collaboration. Emergence of ideas for future projects; building trust and confidence. Allows knowing better partners.

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ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Annual Conference – 26, 27 and 28 April 2017

ISCAP, Porto

Portugal

Deadline to submit work – 10th October

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Journal of advances in higher education Targets: researchers, teachers, students Publication of research and pedagogical experiences;

dissemination of research results. Usually there is a special issue with the best papers of the conference.

Possibility to prepare special issues of other journals (indexed) with thematic papers presented in the conference. Ex: International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction

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Projects Targets: researchers, teachers Support in the preparation of projects prospoals, submission of project’s

proposal, find partners, involvement in projects leaded or preapared by SPACE. Elearning

Target: teachers Elearning courses prepared by members at the disposal of partners. Sharing

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Special activities / events Targets: teachers, researchers, students Focused in certain topics allowing partners to share their experiences, doubts, concerns. Ex: MACOMIP – mini intensive programme about marketing communications. Last topic: “Healthy

food for young people” – preparation of a marketing communication plan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEo9xWfSWnE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWad25-nqzw

Evento for 2017 – teachers. Workshop “Educational Storytelling: How to prepare a story to present to our students?” - + visit

to a tv channel

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Meetings (focused on certain topics). Targets: researchers, IO staff Ex: preparation of project proposals, students competition

Intermediary SPACE belongs to other networks (ex: EURASHE) which allows members to have a voice

in those networks even not being a member there Right place to find partners for exchange of students, teachers and staff and

prepare agreements Facilitates to build trust and confidence among partners (ex: case of the double

diploma)

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Communication – email + newsletters (dissemination of information from members to members) – website, Facebook profile

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Newsletter

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Members’ private area

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ADVANTAGES OF BELONGING TO AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

Extra-curricular strategiesContributes to:

Find international student advisers; organize orientation programmes and share good practices; help students

to create and learn about international students associations

ResearchContributes to:

Promote international collaboration between researchers; allows to incorporate na international perspective in the HEI and research centres and programmes; promotes the collaboration among

international partners; helps comparative studies; dissemination of research results and sharing of knowledge (reviews, publications, databases, conferences, seminars, workshops, colloquia);

promotes research mobility)Technical support

Allos to share good practices and ideas

EducationStudents exchange; foreign languages studies; recruitment of foreign students for full degree

programmes; opportunities; international cooperation agreements;; joint or double degrees;

international internships)

SPACE

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INVITE YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR FACEBOOK AND WEBSITE

https://www.facebook.com/www.spaceuniversities.info/ http://www.space-network.org/

President of SPACE network Anabela Mesquita – sarmento@iscap.ipp.pt

Secretarial services Julie Verstraeten - julie.verstraeten@space-network.org